Device for Triggering Personal Protective Means

• US 20080290636A1
• Filed: 01/25/2005
• Published: 11/27/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Kuttenberger, Alfred, Wellhoefer, Matthias
• Application Number:
  US10/594,356
• Publication Number:
  US 20080290636A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 280/735
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/01068 between different sensors and airbag control unit
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/01075 between the airbag control unit and pyrotechnic fuses or equivalent actuators
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/017 including arrangements for providing electric power to safety arrangements or their actuating means, e.g. to pyrotechnic fuses or electro-mechanic valves

Abstract

A device for triggering personal protective means in a vehicle, an inertial sensor system being provided in a first location, a processor being provided in a second location, and a firing circuit control being provided in a third location in the vehicle. The processor processes the signals of the inertial sensor system and as a function of this triggers the firing circuit control.

Claims

1-7. -7. (canceled)

8. A device for triggering a personal protection device in a vehicle, comprising:

an inertial sensor system situated in a first location in the vehicle;

a processor for evaluating a signal of the inertial sensor system situated in a second location in the vehicle; and

a firing circuit control, which is triggered as a function of a second signal of the processor, situated in a third location in the vehicle.

9. The device according to claim 8, wherein the first location is one of (a) a vehicle tunnel and (b) B-pillars.

10. The device according to claim 8, wherein at least one of the second location and the third location is one of the following:

a trunk, a dashboard, under a vehicle seat, in a vehicle seat, a vehicle roof, and an engine compartment.

11. The device according to claim 8, wherein the processor is a central computer for the vehicle.

12. The device according to claim 8, wherein the inertial sensor system has a sensor signal pre-evaluation.

13. The device according to claim 8, wherein the inertial sensor system is connected to the processor and to the firing circuit control in each case via a BUS system.

14. The device according to claim 8, wherein the processor is situated on a plug-in module.